Site and Subjective writing
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13th Sep 2010
29th Nov 2010
The general purpose of the course is to introduce to students strategies for writing their MA thesis and other texts led from and based on practice. Topics proposed to be introduced: fieldwork narratives; confessional tales; auto-ethnography/auto-archaeology; media fieldnotes; artist writing; site writing; performative writing; spatial thinking; writing about practice; writing about process; writing about roles.
Learning outcomes: The students will be introduced to different practice-led writing methods and examples, with short exercises as part of the learning process based on current work they are doing.
Study mode: Lectures, individual exercise tasks and peer reviews of other students' works.
Assessment Criteria : 80% attendance on the lectures, completed exercise tasks (all must be submitted).
Study Metarial : Handout materials given during the lectures.
Selected references:
Coffey, Amanda (1999). The Ethnographic Self: fieldwork and the representation of identity. Sage Publishers, London.
Davies, C. A. (2007). Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others, Routledge
Press, London.
Denzin, Norman K. (2003). Performance Ethnography: critical pedagogy and the politics of culture. Sage Publications, London.
Pelias, Ronald J. (1999). Writing Performance: poeticizing the researcher’s body. Southern Illinois University Press.
Pearson, Mike. (2006). In Comes I: performance, memory and landscape. University of Exeter Press, Exeter.
Pollock, Della. (1998). "Performing Writing." In The Ends of Performance, Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane, eds. (New
York: New York University, 1998), 91.
Rendall, Jane. (2010). Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism: Art, Architecture and Criticism,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Site-Writing-Architecture-Art-Criticism/dp/1845119991
Svenungsson, Jan. (2007). An Artist's Text Book. Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Press, Helsinki.
Van Maanan, John. (1988). Tales of the Field: on writing ethnography. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Wright, Fiona. (2001). Uncertain Bodies III: telling otherwise, article in Practice as
Research in Performance Symposium, (University of Bristol, November 2001), 7. accessed 11/04,
http://www.bris.ac.uk/parip/s_fw.doc
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